Railroad-tie plate



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. ALLIN, 0E cLARENDom-ARKANSAS.

RAILROAD-TIE PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent Nt). 601,766, dated April 5, I898.

Application led July 3, 1897. Serial No. 643,407. (No model.)

Improved RailroadTie Plate,of which the fol- K lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to providea new and improved metallic railroad-tie plateu which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to properly support a rail and permit of securely fastening the same in place and at the same time prevent the tieplate from slipping on the tie.

The invention consists principally of a rolled plate formed with a turned-up lip in its body portion for engagement .with one side of the base of the rail.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

- Reference is to be had'to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,-

in which similarv characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the flgures.

Figure l is a plan view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is' a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improvement, and Fig. 5 is an under side perspective View of the same. n

The improved tie-plate A is adapted to rest on a tieB and is formed of rolled iron or steel and is provided in its body portion with a struck-up lip A', curved so as to pass over.

and engage one side of the base of a rail C, as is plainly illustrated in the drawings. The

4other side of thebase of the rail C is engaged by one or more spikes D, driven through an aperture A2, formed kin the plate A, and into the tie B, so that the rail is securely locked in place on the tie-plate.

O11 the under side of each plate A are formed one or more transverse ribs A3, adapted to embed themselves in the top surface of the tie B, soV as to prevent longitudinal aswell as lateral lmovement of the tie-plate on the tie.

-In using the tie-plates I reverse the said tieplates alternately on the ties, as is plainly indicated in` Figl l, so that the lips A' of successive tie-plates are alternately on opposite lsides ot' a rail to engage the base of the vrail I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A railroad-tie plate, consisting of a rectangular plate, having@ turned-up lip cutfrom the body of the` plate and designed to engage the base-ange of a rail, an aperture `for a spike in alinement with the lip, and two parallel V-,shaped ribs located on the reverse side of the plate from the lip, extending from end to end of the plate near the side edges thereof, and adapted to be embedded in the tie length- Wise of the grain, substantially as described.

.. l WILLIAM JKALLIN.

Witnesses:

J. W. B. ROBINSON, G. W. TERRY. 

